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Article: THE SUNDAY PICTURE
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 26, 1996
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This week's choice cannot usually be seen at all, let alone for
free on a Sunday - it is privately owned, and though it is now on
public view, it's in a show with an entry charge. But today IoS
readers can get into "Imagining Rome: British Artists and Rome in
the 19th Century" for nothing. Among visions of Roman antiquity by
Turner, Alma-Tadema, Poynter, et al, is this, Campagna di Roma: via
Prenestina (1865), Edward Lear's startling painting of the Torre
de' Schiavi. Lear is best-known for his Nonsense verse, but he was
as much an artist as a humorist. He spent the best part of 11 years
in Italy, just one of the many artistic and literary Englishmen
drawn to and ...